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[Evan Wilson <evanjameswilson@xxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO:

People hang onto their old ratty security blankets.  I've been using 
GNOME 3 since Fedora 15 released on my work computer and I've fallen in 
love.  The architecture hasn't changed significantly, and it's actually 
much more keyboard friendly.  While more minimal in terms of the point 
and click interface, they've hung onto all the old backend flexibility.  
I've found that it appeals more to the low level mentality, which kind 
of eschews choice of desktop environment for the gears that keep it 
moving anyways.  I don't expect the hullabaloo to last, especially in 
the Torvalds crowd.

I think the issue people have is the interface change.  Resist change.  
The power of linux isn't in the graphical shell and there's no reason to 
shy from a very thoroughly developed, clean, and inevitably pervasive 
solution regardless of all the well thought out but functionally 
skin-deep changes it's made.  This is what appeals to "users", which I'm 
quite comfortable labeling myself as such.  Fluxbox will always be the 
outsider, the alternative.  It exists to be faster and smaller than the 
big ones (which certainly has its place), but it doesn't have the 
functionality to compete with the bigger alternatives.  Weather the 
storm, and the more cantakerous members of the community will move onto 
the next target and quietly slip into line.  And it'll definitely help 
wooing the masses from the OTHER GUYS to have something that looks 
modern and "cool".  And hey, it's wonderful on the inside too.

(Unity's pretty sweet too).

Peace,

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Evan Wilson <evanjameswilson@xxxxxxxxx>



On 08/04/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
> Here's a lovely piece on Linus Torvalds now calling for GNOME to be
> forked and for GNOME 3 to be deprecated in favor of continuing GNOME 2:
>
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Torvalds-blasts-GNOME-3-plus-KDE-47-and-Netflix-for-Linux/?kc=rss
>
> Any thoughts?  As it seems that not only is Unity proving controversial
> but GNOME 3 apparently is too...do we want to talk more about things
> like Xfce, Fluxbox, and Openbox at OLF perhaps if we manage to pull off
> the burning station?
>
> SMK
>
>
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